THE SOUTH: The Prick of the Bayonet

"This is the darkest day in Southern
history since Reconstruction," vowed a speaker at a Kiwanis meeting in
Marshall, Texas, whereupon the Kiwanians refused to give their
customary pledge of allegiance to the flag. In Jacksonville an Air
Corps veteran mailed his four Air Medals and six battle stars to the
President for distribution among the soldiers of the 101st Airborne
Division. In Columbia, S.C., Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr.
resigned his commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve so that he could not
be called into service. In Albany, Ga., persons unknown...